Richard Brody

The political maneuvering of cardinals gathered in the Vatican to choose a new Pope gives rise to fine performances but merely methodical drama.

The ninety-four-year-old director’s courtroom thriller, starring Nicholas Hoult and Toni Collette, shows how self-interested parties can make the striving for justice yield injustices.

Her reviews are not contemptuous, a common pitfall for her imitators. They are simply unbridled in their dislike.

A series of legal challenges could radically disempower the National Labor Relations Board—and other administrative agencies—regardless of who controls Congress or the White House.

I am a Tinder guy holding a fish and I will provide for you I thought I would accomplish a lot more today and also by the time I was thirty-five

Despite Kamala Harris’s strong start, the race is now a tossup. Whatever happens, a sober reckoning with the limitations of her campaign is essential for Democrats going forward.

Once a top Republican in Congress, and now a supporter of Kamala Harris, Cheney cancelled her subscription to the Washington Post after Bezos blocked its endorsement: “It’s a disgrace.”

The MSNBC host says that Trump’s authoritarian message is timeless. “You can sell [it] to people who are in great need of relief,” she says. “But you can also sell it to billionaires.”

“This is an election of a kind we have never seen before in American history,” the historian said, at The New Yorker Festival on October 26th.

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